Scaling the heights for knowledge!
A Russian palaeontologist visiting the Natural History Museum in London desperately wanted a better look at the skeleton of an extinct aquatic reptile, but its glass case was too high up on the wall where it had attracted little attention over the course of a century. So he attached his digital camera to a long selfie stick and - with several clicks - made a significant find.
The images revealed that the creature, whose bones had been unearthed more than a century ago on the coast of southern England, seemed very similar to a genus of ichthyosaurs - a group of now-extinct marine reptiles - that he recognised from collections in his native Russia.